Home Health & Hospice Week
HOME HEALTH COMPARE MEASURES
Pending Home Health Compare Measures Measures Already In HHC
1. Substantial decline in management of oral medications
1. Improvement in ambulation/locomotion
2. Improvement in bathing
3. Improvement in transferring
4. Improvement in management of oral medications
5. Improvement in pain interfering with activity
6. Acute care hospitalization
7. Emergent Care
New Measures
8. Improvement in status of surgical wounds
9. Improvement in dyspnea
10. Improvement in urinary incontinence
11. Increase in number of pressure ulcers
12. Emergent care for wound infections, deteriorating wound status
13. Emergent care for improper medication administration, medication side effects
14. Emergent care for hypo/hyperglycemia
15. Discharge to community
Measures Still Under Consideration By NQF
2. Discharge to community while still needing wound care or medication assistance
3. Unexpected nursing home admission
4. Family evaluation of hospice care
5. Comfort within 48 hours
6. Unwanted hospitalizations
Home Health & Hospice Week
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